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We saw one of the fox kits again this evening. Diane took the cat food that we had put out for Jack in the house and put it on the back patio yesterday, this morning the bowl was empty, so we put out some more, and the kit was munching on it, even though it's right beside the patio door. Brave little fox!
I had an interesting assortment of animals when I was young. I once found 9 frogs that had fallen through the sidewalk grate at the bank, and they let me go downstairs and gather them in a box. So, what do you do with 9 frogs? I put them in the bathtub, of course.
My mother comes home from work, goes into the bathroom, sits down, and there's this leopard frog sitting on the corner of the tub, a foot away, staring at her.
EEEEEEEEEE!
Michael! There's a frog in the bathtub!
No, there are nine of them.
(Notice, though, that she knew which one of us kids to blame!)
Then there was the time someone found a mud puppy (look it up) and it lived in the bathtub for a few days.
And someone I knew had found a crow who got injured and could no longer fly. It lived in our back yard for the rest of the summer but didn't survive the winter. Our momma cat and the crow didn't get along, but neither intimidated the other much. She'd try to sneak up behind him, and he'd turn, spread his wings out 3-4 feet wide and they'd have a standoff for a minute or two.
Well, the BLTs tasted like BLTs, even though the bacon was a bit strange, which wasn't the bread's fault. It's a small loaf, half-gone already, but I'm very likely to buy it again. It was reasonably priced, too. Now we'll see if we finish the loaf before it starts to go bad, though it had a freshness date of 6/28 when I bought it last Saturday.
The Reddit r/keto channel folks keep talking about the Aldi keto-friendly buns, so I stopped in the other day to see if our Aldi had them. They did, and also a keto-friendly white bread, 11 carbs/slice but 0 net carbs after subtracting insoluble fiber. I got both, but will freeze most of the buns, since they're 8 to a pack. The brand on both is L'Oven Fresh, whether it can be found other than at Aldi is unclear.
I had a slice of the white bread, toasted, with some peanut butter for lunch, not bad. No odd flavors masking the taste of the peanut butter.
So tonight we're planning BLT's to give this bread the acid test.
We had the rest of the lahvosh pizza and also had a salad and some deviled eggs.
Steaks for dinner here, plus deviled eggs and the Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake.
This Texas Chocolate Sheet Cake was weird, the texture of the cake was more like seitan (which is also made from wheat gluten), very chewy, and the frosting is best eaten with a spoon.
The flavors were better, so next time I'll go back to the flourless cake recipe I used the last time around but stick with regular cocoa, not the Dutch stuff, which was bitter. Making cooked sugars with allulose seem to be a bit of a challenge, it doesn't behave like either sucrose or glucose for how it cooks, so I need to work on the frosting. (Powdered allulose is even more expensive than granulated alluolose, though, so experimenting with it will be limited.)
I didn't plant any zucchini this year, but it's an interesting idea.
ooh, thanks for the reminder, I just went out and picked about a half-cup of black raspberries, a nice snack for the two of us.
My son got a flat of them from the farmer's market he goes to in the Pittsburgh area, plus a flat of pie cherries.
The daikon 'potato' salad doesn't have the same taste as potato salad but I don't get 'radish!', either. The texture is close and the other ingredients tend to overwhelm the potato anyway. It needs something, maybe more oil/vinegar, seasonings and more chopped egg. I added another egg, some more oil/vingegar and some dill weed.
I am trying using daikon radish in place of potato in potato salad, the more it cooks the less it tastes like radish, so maybe after I add the oil and vinegar and other ingredients (celery, onion, celery salt, celery seed, hard boiled egg), it'll have some similarity to potato salad.
It looks like our attempt to turn a rescue cat (back) into a house cat has failed.
He has been mis-behaving when he wants outside, jumping on the table and peeing, etc. We tried taking him out on a leash for two weeks and that seemed to work OK, so on Wednesday we tried letting him out without the leash. He came in a couple of times, including during the hottest part of the afternoon for a nap, but went outside around suppertime and hasn't been seen since.
He had apparently lived outdoors for about 9 months, so he's got street smarts and probably can handle himself with the other critters in the neighborhood. He could still show up again, but I'm not counting on that, and the lack of knowledge as to his situation is unsettling. We did check the animal shelter today, lots of cats but no Jack.
We might decide to get another cat at some point, right now the shelters are overflowing with kittens, but I think we need to get some of Jack's leavings cleaned up first.
We did another lahvosh pizza and ate half of it. Not the lowest carb meal but it sounded good to Diane, who's had some stomach issues lately, so anything she was willing to eat was OK by me.
We also had some raw broccoli with some Deans French Onion dip.
I tried another formula for texas chocolate sheet cake, and it had issues. The cake rose too much, then collapsed in the center. The frosting is too liquid, probably too much buttermilk.
I stuck it in the fridge overnight, we'll see if it is even edible tomorrow.
I'm making a batch of keto hot dog buns tonight (under 8 carbs each) using vital wheat gluten, oat fiber and whey protein isolate. I left out the flaxseed flour, which did poorly in my flours test a few weeks ago.
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